400+ rescued from labor trafficking

Over 400 men, women and children have been rescued from international labor trafficking since June. Among those rescued were 76 children, some as young as 14 years old.

All had been lured out of Thailand by false job offers and ended up being forced to work in scamming call centers. Their working conditions were brutal – survivors reported being held against their will and electrocuted or subjected to solitary confinement as discipline.

Our rescue team in Thailand has been working tirelessly on these cases since June, in collaboration with other non-profit organizations and government agencies. Their work to rescue these 400+ lives included investigation, rescue operations, travel coordination to repatriate survivors and interviewing assistance.

Rescue Update Archive

69 Rescued from Human Traffickers

69 people, including 31 children, were rescued before they were trafficked across the Nepal border.

Traffickers use a variety of tactics, from romantic grooming to fake job postings, to lure their targets out of Nepal. Once out, the victims are sold into brothels or labor trafficking, cut off from help in a foreign land.

But these 69 survivors are safe! After being counseled on how criminals trick their targets, they all returned home to their families. One even pressed charges against her trafficker, despite the risk of incurring social stigma. That trafficker was arrested.

48 rescued from traffickers at the Nepal border

Eighteen kids and 30 adults were stopped before human traffickers could get them out of the country.

Among the survivors were two girls, aged 13 and 17, traveling with a woman who’d instructed them to lie when they reached a checkpoint. When our agents interviewed the girls, they noticed that their stories didn’t match. The traffickers had promised the girls good jobs on the other side but likely planned something much worse. More here.

23 Kids Rescued in Kenya

23 kids, along with four young adults, have been rescued from sexual exploitation by our teams in Kenya.

The incredible team of caseworkers and rescue agents rescued kids from a variety of exploitative exploitations, including trafficker-controlled exploitation, sex crimes and survival exploitation. All the survivors are now recovering in our Community Care Program.

5 Rescued from Sex Traffickers in Cambodia

4 kids and one 18-year-old are now free from exploitation

The children, aged 14 to 17, and one young adult were rescued in two separate cases. The survivors have entered our community care program, where they will begin recovering from their experiences and become equipped to live free.

51 Rescued from Nepal Border Traffickers

Fifty-one people are home safe after our border agents stopped their traffickers.

17 of the survivors were children, several as young as 14 years old. When our brave border agents see something suspicious about travelers, they stop them and conduct interviews until they get the truth, all with the support of the Nepal border guard. Thanks to their efforts, these people won’t have to face the horrors their traffickers had planned for them.

Join us in celebrating their freedom!